Southerners compared it with the wage-slave system of the North. They said that the slaves were better cared for then the free factory workers in the North. Southerners said that slave-owners provided shelter, food, care, and regulation for a race unable to compete in the modern world without proper training. The Baptist Church spilt because of slavery. The Northern Baptist saw slavery as immoral. Yet, Southern preachers proclaimed that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible. By the time of 1804, seven of the northern states had abolished slavery. The time of reformation swept over the North and West. There were demands for political equality, economic, religious, and social advances. The Northerners goals were free public education, better salaries and working conditions for workers, rights for women, and better treatment for criminals. Education changed in the North. Horace Mann, as secretary of the Board of Education, campaigned for more and better schoolhouses, longer school terms, higher pay for teachers, and an expanded curriculum. Black slaves in the South were legally forbidden to receive instruction in reading or writing, and even free blacks, in the North and South were usually excluded from the schools. Women began to go to higher places of education. Even though many thought, women should stay at home. .
The South felt these views were not important. All of these views eventually led to an attack on the slavery system in the South, and showed opposition to its spread into whatever new territories that were acquired. Northerners said that slavery revoked the human right of being a free person. Now with all these views the North set out on its quest for the complete abolition of slavery.
When new territories became available in the West, the South wanted to expand and use slavery in the newly acquired territories. Nevertheless, the North opposed to this and wanted to stop the extension of slavery into new territories.